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I-Team
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 6:22 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson and Photojournalist Irisa Wheeler
Aiken City Council is righting a wrong after we began investigating skyrocketing suburban fire fees.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 6:39 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson and Photojournalist Irisa Wheeler
A five-month I-Team investigation into one address that’s home to hundreds of crime reports and hazardous code violations. It’s also home to hundreds of local families.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2020 at 6:20 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Local investigators have been pleading with the state to step in, months before the sickening of four patients, and two deaths at First Love Personal Care Home.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2020 at 3:33 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
As cell phone usage increased to record numbers in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the I-Team found criminals swiping cellphones for cash also spiked locally.
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Updated: Oct. 15, 2020 at 6:21 PM EDT
|By Jeremy Turnage
A plan is now in place to fix Aiken County’s EMS crisis after years of warning signs and complaints raised by EMS employees and citizens.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 at 6:30 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
The weight of COVID-19 is exposing cracks in fragile EMS systems across the country.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2020 at 6:23 PM EDT
|By Ciara Cummings
Fewer people in jail and fewer 9-1-1 calls going wrong - that’s the goal of a new team at the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2020 at 5:16 AM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
We went to work and found an issue much bigger than this one case.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2020 at 6:28 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
All across the Augusta area, families are waiting for critical benefits from Social Security to life insurance. We’ve found death benefits in our region are being delayed for months, even years.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2020 at 6:27 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson and Photojournalist Irisa Wheeler
We’re still a month away from Election Day, and it’s already one for the history books. More people than ever before will cast a ballot at home, and that means more ballots than ever before will arrive at polling places by mail.
7-Day Planner
Updated: Sep. 30, 2020 at 6:06 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Cyberattacks appear to be increasing in the pandemic and cybercriminals are using new tricks against us. Now, security experts are racing to stop the million and billion dollar holdups from spinning out of control.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2020 at 6:25 PM EDT
|By Ciara Cummings
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Jacob Blake -- the list of names protestors call go on and on. The calls for police reform are just as loud. Georgia state lawmakers heard them.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2020 at 6:11 AM EDT
|By Steve Byerly
A victim was shot multiple times by suspect who fled the scene in a white SUV, according to initial reports.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2020 at 2:39 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
It’s now been six long months since families have been able to visit their loved ones in nursing homes. Fear of the virus led state leaders to suspend visitation in long-term care facilities in March, but keeping visitors out has not kept COVID-19 out.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2020 at 4:42 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Three days before kids went back to school in Columbia County, we showed you just how the county was going to fight against virus spread.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2020 at 6:43 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Widespread and expanding community spread of the virus is impacting Georgia’s healthcare system. ICU beds are now at 85 percent capacity throughout the state. Augusta University Medical Center and University Hospital are among the dozens of hospitals diverting ICU patients to other hospitals over the last two weeks.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2020 at 4:55 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Hospitalizations and deaths continue to climb across the two-state, and so is burnout among healthcare workers.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 6:26 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Nearly 2,000 patients have died from the virus in Georgia, and more than 800 have in South Carolina. Our I-TEAM analyzed the most recent data released by the state of South Carolina.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 5:47 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
The results are in after our I-Team put several at-home coronavirus tests to the test. In all, our Meredith Anderson took five different tests.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 6:20 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
An all-new I-Team investigation is putting at-home coronavirus tests to the test.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:02 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
While some parents chose online learning for their children this school year, other parents are left with no choice but to allow their children to learn at least part-time from home.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 6:08 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Now that the first day is in the books for the first batch of students in our area, we're doing some homework tonight.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 6:14 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Families remain cut off from loved ones in nursing homes as COVID-19 continues to ravage long term facilities. Pre-pandemic, families relied on the ombudsman to investigate allegations of abuse or neglect, but even they are now cut off from nursing home residents.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2020 at 4:44 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Recreation league sports leagues are starting to gear up for the season, but how safe will it be to play?
Updated: Jul. 27, 2020 at 7:09 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
A mother and her boyfriend sit in jail charged with the murder of a 12-year-old boy. Warrants accuse Jasmine Camp and Clarence Brown of punishing the child to death while other children in the home listened.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2020 at 4:16 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Georgia’s top leaders say backlogs in processing COVID tests makes it nearly impossible to conduct contact tracing. But the backlog is also putting families in limbo as they wait days or even weeks in quarantine for their results.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2020 at 5:20 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Parents, we know a lot of you are still struggling with the school decision: should I send my kids or keep them home?
Updated: Jul. 23, 2020 at 7:15 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
With so many of us thinking ahead to the fall and what it means for back to school and back to any semblance of a normal life, an expanded warning from the FDA is grabbing our attention.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2020 at 3:59 PM EDT
|By Laura Warren
We're continuing to expose a troubling trend for the potential of rising cases of CTE -- not in football players, but in the US military from repeated traumatic brain injuries while in combat.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2020 at 5:20 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
The I-Team continues to dig deeper into dispatch problems at Aiken County 911. Our ongoing investigation this month has uncovered massive turnover at the department and a lack of medical training for dispatchers compared to other local counties.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2020 at 4:37 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Paul Tarashuk would have celebrated his 28th birthday this month, but instead, his parents are pushing the federal government to hold Orangeburg County EMS and the sheriff’s office accountable for possible violations of the Americans with Disabilities act.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2020 at 8:34 PM EDT
|By Laura Warren
Our military fighting for our country overseas come home to face a different kind of battle. We’ve heard the letters ‘CTE’ in sports but our troops are facing it as well.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2020 at 5:05 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Hospital beds are filling up and visitation restrictions are back in place across the CSRA as thousands of state residents battle COVID-19.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2020 at 6:31 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
An all-new I-Team investigation reveals allegations of inhumane treatment of animals, workers injured on the job, and contaminated meat all at one Augusta business.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2020 at 6:47 PM EDT
|By Ciara Cummings
Years of problems and pollution at the Richmond County landfill have caused concern for neighbors and will cost the city millions. The issues link to broken pipes, broken systems, and allegations of mismanagement.
Updated: Jul. 10, 2020 at 1:30 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Earlier this week, we showed you how mistakes inside Aiken 911 dispatch center is costing critical minutes to save lives. You heard from devastated families and Aiken County Sheriff Michael Hunt himself.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2020 at 5:04 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Every minute matters when saving a life.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 5:45 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
An all-new I-Team investigation begins with a heart attack -- a mother collapses on the floor. Her family, knowing seconds count, begins CPR and dials Aiken County 911.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2020 at 5:04 PM EDT
Increasing COVID-19 concerns left cities on both sides of the river canceling their annual Fourth of July celebrations this weekend.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2020 at 4:14 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Could civil unrest coupled with coronavirus constraints lead to another crisis -- a thinner police force on our streets?
Updated: Jul. 1, 2020 at 2:37 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Georgia lawmakers are taking action after the staggering death toll from coronavirus is happening in one place: nursing homes
Updated: Jun. 29, 2020 at 4:44 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Questions are emerging about what happened to more than 700 birds seized in an illegal cockfighting bust, one that the U.S. Attorney’s office broke up in Emanuel County more than a week ago.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2020 at 5:51 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
The IRS sent stimulus checks families across the country during the beginning of the pandemic to help get through the financial hardships it brought.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2020 at 9:22 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
New information has been uncovered about the death of a 12-year-old boy, information that Division of Family and Children Services could have intervened and opened a case earlier.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 6:10 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
It was a crime that terrified the community. Two years later, the crime remains unsolved and the victim is acting against Augusta University.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 4:52 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Doctors, nurses, medical students, and health experts continue to fight the spread of COVID-19. Now they will likely have to do it with even less money in Georgia. The economic fallout is hitting every aspect of the state budget.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 4:51 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
esearchers at Augusta University Health have made a major breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19. It basically involves cloning blood cells and figuring out a way to make them live forever.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 5:54 AM EDT
A revised version of Georgia’s state budget for the upcoming year would cut $2.6 billion in state money after Gov. Brian Kemp told lawmakers to reduce spending by 11%.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 6:09 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Researchers say they've made a breakthrough when it comes to treating coronavirus. But doctors at AU have already been using it for weeks now.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 6:08 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Something you have in your medicine cabinet could help stop the spread of coronavirus, and it’s not a pill.